Sun Awning, Scottsdale AZ

Maybe that was in the back of my mind while I waited for the Big Guy to finish his Spring Training ticket purchases at Salt River Fields at Talking Stick. It was a dreary day, so the sky colour wasn’t great, but I played around with a few overhead shots of the sun awning.

As often happens with these mostly geometric photos, I’m not sure whether it works, or how it might work better. This is OK, I guess, but sort of boring . . .

Working with the cropping tools available to me, I first tried moving it off centre. Better? I don’t think so.

Then I tried a widescreen format. Better? Maybe a little bit.

Maybe I’d do better to stick with birds and flowers and bridges. But I do wonder why I sometimes see fabulous photos of simple shapes, and yet have trouble doing them my own self. I believe this is going to take some work.

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The trouble with abstract shapes is that the mind plays tricks (perhaps that’s the whole point of optical illusions). I looked at these pix, and I thought I was seeing a cartoon rendering of Barbie’s waist.
Jim T
(Don’t tell me my mind runs in predictable grooves.)

I think the first one works because it emphasizes the symmetry in something we would not consider symmetrical. The last one doesn’t work for me because it adds more orange, which is not the focus of our mind’s eye.